Chapter 145： cantaloupe

Yingbao and his two younger brothers also went to pick up vegetables from the field. Yuanbao, Huzi and Wei Zhan followed to join in the fun.

Jiang Jie and Hu Zi Wei Zhan are very impatient and often run around instead of doing their job. The two puppies also ran around and barked with them, very happy.

The little deer followed Yingbao closely, following her wherever she went.

This mountain forest is densely wooded, with a few fruit trees among them, but unfortunately there are no fruits.

Yingbao was carrying a basket looking for ground vegetables, and was thinking about how to take out the ripe cantaloupe from the cave.

In the past few days, the cantaloupe has matured one after another, and the fragrance filled the entire cave.

Ying Bao's mouth watered with greed, but he didn't dare to eat it because he was afraid that the aroma left behind after eating it would make people suspicious.

 And she couldn't do it alone, leaving her brother and parents aside.

After much deliberation, I just decided to get some while I was out.

 Turning around, he saw his younger brother Jiang Wu working hard to pick up vegetables from the field. His seriousness really made people feel heartbroken.

Seeing that there was no one else around, Ying Bao sneaked behind a big tree, pulled out two melon vines from the cave, and then quickly buried the roots in the soil.

“Jiang Wu, come here, there are good things here!”

Ying Bao yelled at the top of her lungs, not daring to be too loud for fear of attracting other children.

Jiang Wu jumped up, ran over, then opened his eyes wide and rushed forward in disbelief, shouting: "What is this? It smells so good!"

“Hush!” Yingbao asked him to keep his voice down, and started to pick the cantaloupes one by one and put them into the bamboo basket.

Although Jiang Wu had never seen cantaloupe, he knew it was delicious just by smelling it, and he couldn't help but salivate.

“What is it?” he asked again, picking one and putting it in his basket.

Yingbao said seriously: "It's cantaloupe. I've seen it in the county. It's delicious."

Actually not, but my brother doesn’t know.

When Jiang Wu heard that it was really delicious, he excitedly picked up the melons and vines and stuffed them into the bamboo basket.

There are four large cantaloupes on one vine, eight melons on two vines, and two small immature ones.

But Yingbao couldn't care less. It was nothing to sacrifice two melon seeds just to eat melons.

Yingbao and his younger brother struggled to carry the basket and started calling people: "Huzi! Yuanbao! Come here quickly!"

I called the children twice before they ran over, followed by two cheerful puppies.

“Wow! Honeydew!” Yuanbao had eaten this kind of green melon before. He rushed over and picked one up, putting it under his nose and sniffing it. “It smells so good!”

Wei Zhan has also eaten cantaloupe. Seeing that there were so many cherry blossom baskets, he asked curiously: "Where did you find it? You must have picked it in someone else's melon field."

Ying Bao glanced at him: "Then don't eat it!"

Shouldn't she understand that this guy said that she was going to steal melons from other people's melon fields?

 Wei Zhan was not angry and said with a smile: "Everyone who sees it has a share."

They saw Yuan Bao using his nails to make a circle on the cantaloupe, and then beat it hard several times, causing the cantaloupe to split.

He broke off pieces and gave them to Wei Zhan, Hu Zi, Jiang Jie, Jiang Wu, and Ying Bao. He took the largest piece and bit into it, crispy and sweet, and exclaimed: "Sweet! Delicious!"

Ying Bao finally ate the cantaloupe she had been craving for, even the skin, and ate it all in a few bites.

Yuanbao Huzi and the others did the same. They ate all the skin and seeds. Only Wei Zhan gnawed away the inside and stuffed the remaining melon rind to Youyou who came over.

Dhuang and Xiaohei barked anxiously when they saw their little master eating without caring about the dog. Their dark almond-shaped eyes were filled with accusations.

Yingbao simply took out another one and divided it with them, then left the pulp to the two dogs.

After eating the cantaloupe, the children stopped picking up the vegetables. Yuanbao and Huzi took the initiative to carry the melon basket back.

When she handed the basket to Chun Niang, Chun Niang was simply shocked. "Where did you get the cantaloupe?" Very few people in their mountain village grow this kind of melon, and even if they do, it is sold out quickly. Unless you go shopping every day, you may not come across it.

Jiang Wu took the initiative to explain: "I found them behind the big tree! My sister and I collected them all!"

Seeing that there were still scattered flowers and two melon buttons on the melon vines, Chun Niang said with a pity on her face: "Why did you tear the melon vines off and let them continue to grow?"

Jiang Wu quickly shut his mouth and stopped talking.

The fact that the Jiang children picked up the cantaloupe could not be hidden from anyone, because Chun Niang gave one to Mrs. Wen and another to Patriarch Chen.

I also have four large, two small and six melons, which are enough to eat.

At this time, many adults and children were wandering around, trying to find cantaloupes, and the results were predictable.

Xiao Zhenniang divided the cantaloupe sent by Chun Niang into six parts, one each for herself and her daughter's nanny, and the remaining three parts were given to sisters Wen Tian and Wen Jiao.

Mrs. Lin stood outside the bamboo shed and looked towards the Jiang family. When she came back, she complained to Xiao Zhenniang with an unhappy look on her face: "That Miss Jiang Sanniang is too ungrateful. Even though I am also the husband of her child, she only sent one Just melon.”

Xiao Zhenniang ignored her, and after eating the melon, she and her daughter sewed shoelaces together.

I have been walking in the mud for the past few days, and the soles of my shoes will fall off easily if they are stuck to the mud, so I have to sew two shoelaces on the shoes to make walking easier.

Seeing that her four younger siblings were ignoring each other, Mrs. Lin became more and more frustrated. She suddenly turned back to the bamboo shed and kicked down the pottery pot on the ground.

The pottery pot contained rice porridge sent by the Jiang family. Half of it was eaten and half of it was left. Xiao Zhenniang originally wanted to keep it for the children to eat at night, but Mrs. Lin kicked it over and the pot broke into several pieces.

Xiao Zhenniang heard the noise and raised her head to take a look. She didn't say anything, but she made up her mind.

Since Mrs. Lin is so careless, there is no need for me to care about her. From now on, everyone can just live their own lives.

It’s a pity that the accommodation is limited, so she and her daughter have to squeeze together with Lin’s mother and daughter, which is really depressing.

When the nanny saw that the porridge jar was broken, she felt very distressed. She quickly scraped the rice porridge on the ground into the broken pottery shards and took it outside for the horse to eat.

Mr. Lin lost her temper and lay in Caopu, closing her eyes and falling asleep, feeling regretful that she shouldn't have come to this ghost place.

The experience of Qian'er being almost overtaken by bandits was vivid in her mind, which almost frightened her out of courage. The two daughters were also frightened a lot, and even now they can't calm down, and they often have nightmares at night.

When the banditry is over, I will definitely take my daughter back to Yuzhou and never stay in this ghost place again.

Go to **** with any folk remedies or secret medicines. Nothing is as important as your own life.

In the evening, Jiang Sanlang and his eldest and second brothers each dragged back a large bundle of bamboo.

Old man Jiang and his eldest grandson and second grandson started cutting a bunch of bamboo arrows together.

Chen Zhu and a few people who knew how to make bows cut down tree sticks made of special materials, bent them over a fire, and tied them with twisted hemp ropes to make a long bow.

They made more than a dozen longbows that day. Jiang Sanlang tried them out and found them to be very tough.

It’s a pity that there are no iron arrows, otherwise these bows and arrows would definitely be a big killer.

But bamboo arrows are also very lethal. As long as the opponent is not wearing cowhide armor, these sharp bamboo arrows can completely penetrate their chest cavity.

“The meal is ready, let’s eat quickly.”

Chunniang and her eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law have already prepared meals, including a pot of wild vegetables and boiled ground vegetables, a basket of flat bread, a pot of rice porridge, and a plate of cut cantaloupe.

“Huh? Where did you get the cantaloupe?” Jiang Erlang asked.

Yan Ru: "Yingbao and the others found it when they were picking up vegetables."

Jiang Erlang laughed: "I didn't expect that there are cantaloupes on this mountain. Could it be melons from some melon field?"

“My sister and I found it in the woods.” Jiang Wu said loudly, “I’m not from someone else’s melon field.”

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